Aug. 5, 2009

Congressman Frank Kratovil talks with George Gigioli of Ocean Pines prior to a town hall-style meeting in Snow Hill.

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SNOW HILL -- On the lawn of Snow Hill Elementary on Tuesday, people greeted U.S. Rep. Frank Kratovil with homemade signs declaring their disgust for universal health care proposals.

One said: "You won an election, not the lottery. Stop spending my money." Another, held by an elderly woman, said: "Health care for seniors = Euthanasia."

The first-term congressman, stopping in Wicomico and Worcester counties on Tuesday for what he advertised as an agriculture roundtable, got an earful from constituents angry over health care reform bills proposed in Washington. Kratovil, a Democrat, ...